Looking for a cheap and cheerful ish holiday snapper, rather than having to lug the SLRs around the place.

User reviews are driving me nuts though, every camera you can find has at least a few people claiming it to be the worst thing on the face of the earth. I just want the best available point and click camera for as cheapish as possible (£150 ish ideal).

So yeah, 3 different cameras, the only consistent thing I saw when looking for a compact (which I didn't get in the end) is there is no clear 'best' camera out there. The one thing I really was looking out for though was shot speed, by which I mean the delay between pressing the shutter switch and it actually taking the shot, compacts are notoriously slow at this and it drove me mad after a proper DLSR.